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......🎣🐠🐸🦞USA.....The Behavior And Habits Of Largemouth Bass.......🎣🐠🐸🦞USA.....
The Largemouth Bass is America's all-out favorite game fish !
It is probably the most glamorous species in the fresh waters of the world today.
The Largemouth is fundamentally a lake fish, and that is where it colonizes best. It is not a scavenger, it is strictly Predacious! It is not fussy about food. "If it moves, eat it!" is a kind of motto of the species.
Passionate pleasures are derived from the enticing and ensnaring this voracious Largemouth bass. Enticing a bass to accept a lure is pleasure in itself, but finding where such bass may be at any given time is the greatest challenge of all!
In order to assist finicky fishermen to become more successful at catching bass, an in-depth scrutiny of highly regarded and well known literature on bass and bass angling was undertaken. The ensuing outline of bass behavior traits summarizes the noteworthy factors pertaining to this fish.
Giving serious thought to and applying the factors outlined herein should lead to a better understanding and appreciation of its life cycle, its behavioral patterns, and how best to entice it to strike.
We bass fishermen today are fortunate that our predecessors in their wisdom saw fit to introduce this species of fish into waters far beyond its natural habitat. Largemouth bass are now to be found extensively in "warm" freshwaters around the world.
However, because this bass is by nature exceptionally wary of the dangers affecting its existence, it is frequently frustrating to not be consistently successful in catching them.
The following discourse is compiled from selected appropriate extracts of various noted authorities and writers, on the behavior and habits of Largemouth Bass (Micropterus Salmoides) and with particular application to waters of the northern United States.
This compilation of information is a merging of the experimentations, studies, findings, observations and opinions of leading aquatic and fishing experts over decades of their painstaking analyses on the behavior of Largemouth bass.
It is hoped that a greater success rate in the catching of Largemouth bass will be achieved by those anglers who may grasp the information contained herein.
LARGEMOUTH BASS:
General Attributes;
The Largemouth Bass is the basic freshwater game fish. He is voracious as a predator but extremely wary of danger and spends only a very small portion of each day actually feeding. (More on this later)
George W. Bennett of the Illinois Natural History Survey concludes that the largemouth is the most "intelligent" of game fishes.
They are extremely curious and this results in a good many getting hooked early in life. But they soon become wary (maybe "educated" is a better word) and often this leads anglers to believe a lake is "fished out" or does not contain many bass.
A Largemouth bass soon learns that lures, especially those it sees most often, can get it into trouble. The quality of fish and fishing can be readily diminished by too much angling pressure (at least by too much removal of the larger breeding-size bass). However, an undesirable alteration or destruction of its habitat is the greatest hazard contributing to the depletion of the species in any given body of water.
The Largemouth Bass (Micropterus Salmoides) is the most adaptable of all the bass species. Given the choice, he will avoid bottom areas of lakes and other waters which are overly muddy or layered with silt.
But the Largemouth Bass is also very tolerant, and if muddy water is unavoidable from time to time he will simply make do. The water may be clear, stained, murky, warm, cool, shallow, deep, cover-free, or infested with jungle-like swamp growth and chances are excellent that "Micropterus" and his progeny will get along just fine.
This bass is built to probe and forage around logs, rocks, and other forms of protective cover. The largemouth have a firm muscular body built primarily for strength rather than for speed.
Bass are equipped with broad powerful tails, excellent vision, superb hearing, vibration sensitivity, and have the ability to maneuver underwater quickly and effectively. These bass are not tailored to long pursuit and the chances of a Largemouth running down a lure over a considerable distance is slim.
When in a feeding mood the bass will normally simply hide and wait until an unsuspecting quarry passes close by, or it may just glide closer to its prey and merely open its huge mouth and inhale strongly. This quickly draws the prey into its mouth with the sudden in-drawn current of water in a manner similar to that which we humans use a straw to guzzle liquids.
The "strike" or "take" of a large female bass will probably be much lighter than that of a male. An angler must be alert to the feel of a gentle "mouthing" of the bait or lure, be aware if his line is slowly moving, and be ready to set the hook immediately!
When angered, startled, or provoked into attacking a prey, the preferred feeding strategy of a bass is to strike instantly when the prey (or lure) passes within relatively close range. In this event it will usually grab the prey and quickly dash away, returning to its station of safety. Largemouth Bass have a burst of swimming speed of about twelve miles per hour, but their sustained swimming speed is much less.
They feed primarily by sound (vibration) and sight. They can detect even the smallest vibrations caused by other fish or prey pushing aside water as they move through or onto it. With their extremely acute vision they take full advantage of periods or areas of subdued light. Any predator prefers to remain in darker waters where it is somewhat concealed and where it is far easier to see prey passing by which is swimming in better-lit water while the bass remains in semi-darkness. Then --- Surprise!
A "Lunker" Largemouth caught north of the Kentucky and Tennessee region is any fish of five or six pounds. Some do grow larger, depending upon the characteristics of the lake in which they exist. In Florida it is only a Largemouth of ten pounds or more which will raise admiring eyebrows among locals.
The world's record Largemouth bass is 22-1/4 pounds taken by George W. Perry in Montgomery Pond near Valdosta, Ga. in 1932. In Florida where growing season is year-round, Largemouth bass usually run about fifteen or sixteen pounds but even these are mighty rare. Some lakes in the northern United States have produced bass of 14 pounds plus, but such fish are rare. Even with their relatively short growing seasons, these lakes often produce better fishing for large bass than should normally be expected for such geographical regions.
Growth rates vary in direct proportion to the fertility of the water, the length of the growing season each year, and the numbers of other fish competing for the food supply.
It is always the female bass which attains the greater weight. Male or "buck" bass rarely grow to any size larger than three or four pounds.
In northern lakes the anticipated length of a female Largemouth bass is as follows:
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